May 13, 2025
Explore Cost-Effectiveness Analyses Alongside Clinical Trials
Gain the skills to design, conduct, and report cost-effectiveness analyses within clinical trials. As more countries integrate economic evidence into regulatory and reimbursement decisions, understanding how to assess economic value alongside clinical efficacy is essential. This course follows Good Research Practices from the ISPOR RCT-CEA Task Force Reports, providing a structured approach to integrating economic evaluations into trial research.
- Trial design: Evaluating effectiveness vs. efficacy in cost-effectiveness trials
- Data collection & management: Selecting key economic data elements, integrating resource use and health state utilities
- Database design: Structuring economic data collection for analysis
- Analysis methods: Conducting incremental analysis with an intention-to-treat approach
- Uncertainty & reporting: Characterizing uncertainty and applying standards for presenting results
- Clinical outcome measures: Obtaining direct health resource use data from study subjects
- Practical guidance on designing cost-effectiveness analyses within trials
- Step-by-step integration of economic data into clinical studies
- Hands-on analysis of trial data, including uncertainty characterization
- Case studies demonstrating best practices for reporting cost-effectiveness results
Familiarity with economic evaluations will be helpful.
LEVEL: Introductory
TRACK: Economic Evaluation
This short course is offered in-person at the ISPOR 2025 conference. Separate registration is required. Visit the ISPOR 2025 Program page to register and learn more.
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Schedule:
LENGTH: 4 Hours | Course runs 1 day
Sunday, 13 May 2025 | Course runs 1 Day
8:00am-12:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
ISPOR short courses are designed to enhance knowledge and techniques in core health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) topics as well as emerging trends in the field. Short courses offer 4 or 8 hours of premium scientific education and an electronic course book. Active attendee participation combined with our expert faculty creates an immersive and impactful learning experience. Short courses are not recorded and are only available during the live course presentation.